Episode Synopsis "3/13 Week 3 Summary: Shell Nouns, Superordinate Nouns, and Reflections on Your First Writing"

This week we finally started writing a summary text using some grammar knowledge to help. As academic writing favours the noun, we talked about shell nouns and superordinate nouns. Also, I manage to have a comment or two on your Week 1 writing task, with three main observations you will find useful for improving your future writing tasks. Have a listen, and the text version can be found here: http://erikthelinguist.com/?p=1531

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More episodes of the podcast Advanced Academic Writing: Tips and Ideas

• 5-6/13 Week 5 & 6 Summary: Grammar to Make Sense and Choice
• 4/13 Week 4 Summary: Nominalisation
• 3/13 Week 3 Summary: Shell Nouns, Superordinate Nouns, and Reflections on Your First Writing
• 2/13 Week 2 Summary: Reviewing Structure of Summary Texts, Paragraphs & Paragraph Openers
• Grammar Point: Tense Choice in Writing
• 1/13 - Week 1 Summary: Reflective Thoughts
• What makes academic writing "academic"?
• Welcoming fellow LCS4453 students
• Introducing "corpus": a tool for finding language patterns